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D. R. HANAWALT.

PHOTOGRAPH MOUNT.

Patented Sept. 4, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFKCE.

'DANIEL R. HANAWALT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFTO JOHN HAlVORTH, OF SAME PLACE.

PHOTOGRAPH-MOUNT.

SIECIFIGA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 525,458, datedSeptember 4, 1894.

Application filed October 18, 1893. Serial No. 488,551. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL R. HANAWALT, acitizen of the United States,residing in the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and valuable Improvement in Photograph-Mounts; andIhereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad tothe annexed drawings, making a part of this; specification, and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

The object of my invention is to furnish a simple and easy means ofmounting albumen, gelatine and collodion photographic prints, on mountsnot heavier than the ordinary card-board mounts, without injury to thefine glac finish or highly burnished surface of the prints, and alsowithout injury to any erubossment that may be desired on the mount.

The ordinary method now in use is to paste the print on a plaincard-mount, and then burnish it by passing the whole through burnishingrolls. If an embossed card were used by this method, the burnishingrollers would spoil the embossment; and if the print be burnished beforebeing pasted to the card, moistening its back with paste destroys itsfine finish. By my invention, these difficulties are overcome and I canproduce a finely burnished print mounted on a beautifully embossedmount. I accomplish this result by the use of a mount consisting ofthree separate parts, Figures. 1, 2, and 3, of the accomnying drawings.

Fig. 1 represents a back view of a mat which may be made of card-board,leather, celluloid or other suitable material, and may be ornamented tosuit the taste. Fig. 2 is a plain piece of card-board on which the printto be burnished and mounted is firmly pasted; or if what is known as theglac finish is used, the same not requiring a burnisher, the print maybe attached to said card by asmall drop of paste at each of its fourcorners. Fig. 3 represents a rectangular piece of stiff cardboard,celluloid or other stifi? thin material and is adapted to become theback of the mount and hold it firm and straight. Fig. 4: represents across section cut lengthwise through the middle of mount after its partsare united, and Fig. 5 represents a similar section cut cross-wise. Fig.6 represents 3. front view of one of my mounts with a photograph mountedupon it.

The mat represented in Fig. 1 is essentially constructed as follows: Thespace or surface I) is depressed from the plane of the marginal surfacecl to a depth corresponding to the thickness of the card or back I) Fig.3. The space or surface a of the mat is further depressed from the planeof the surface I) to a depth corresponding to the thickness of the carda; or from the plane of the margin (1 to a depth corresponding to thesum of the thicknesses of the cards a and b. The edges of the sight oropen area 0 may be of any desired shape, but the limits of thedepression a should correspond closely to the dimensions of the card aso that when the print has been pasted upon the card a and the cardproperly placed in the depression a, the back of it will be flush withthe surface I). The limits of the depression I) should likewisecorrespond closely to the dimensions of the card or back b so that whenit is pasted in position, its back will be flush with the undepressedmargin of the mat d.

I am aware that mounts for photographs made of separate parts pastedtogether have been in use heretofore, but they have been for the purposeof mounting what is known as tin -types which needed no depressions inthe mat for the purpose of neatness, and needed no burnishing by passingthrough rolls before mounting. There have been separable mounts in usealso one of which hada depression in the back piece for the purpose ofreceiving the picture bearing part; and another having a depressed backpiece with openings at its sides to permit of the picture bearing partbeing removed or replaced at will but my mount differs from all theseand has a purpose different from any of them. My mount consists of threeparts-the mat or face piece, the print bearing piece, and the backpiece. The mat or face piece of my mount has two depressions orcavities, the one contiguous to and surrounding the other. No othermount has more than one such 'depression. And no other mount usedheretofore has a separate card on which the print may be pasted andpassed through burnishing rolls. The back pieces of mounts heretoforeused have also been pasted on a plain surface whereas in my mount theback piece is fitted into a depression exactly adapted to receive it,thus making a compact and neat mount which was not the case by formermethods.

I am also aware of Patent No. 279,490 to J. Lane, in which the claimsare for an orna mental card having a pocket accessible from without toreceive cards, 850. My invention is of entirely diiferent constructionand fora very difierent purpose. All the parts in my mount including thepicture to be mounted must be firmly pasted together and form a compactcard of about the ordinary thickness of photograph mounts in common use.It has no pocket accessible from without but all the parts are separatebefore the picture is mounted.

Keeping in View the state of the art to which my invention relates, itmust be remembered that embossed cards having a depression on the frontfor receiving a photographic print are used as mounts; but when printsare thus mounted, they cannot be passed through burnishing rolls withoutdamaging the embossed cards on which they are pasted. The chief objectof my invention is to obviate this last named difficulty by firstpasting the print on a separate card for burnishing, and then fittingthe said card into the back of an embossed mat or front piece as I havedescribed. While it is old to burnish prints pastedon cards, such cardshave heretofore constituted the whole mount, but in my invention theseparate card is only a part of the mount and must be used in connectionwith a mat.

My mount must be distinguished froma picture frame, since a photographis but made ing every picture that a photographer would finish.

From the foregoing description of my invention, any one versed in thearttowhich it relates can construct and use the same.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As a new article of manufacture, a photographic mount consisting of aseparate print bearing card on which a photographic print may be pastedand passed through burnisher; and a mat having embossmeuts or depressionfor receiving such print bearing card, and back piece; and a back piecefitting into depression on the .mat and over the back of print bearingcard, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination with a photographic mount, a mat or face piece, havingan opening or sight 0, and surrounding and contiguous to said sight, adepression or embossment adapted to receive from the rear, a printbearing card; and surrounding and contiguous to said card receivingdepression or ambossment, a shallower embossment or depression extendingto lines parallel to the edges of the mat, substantially as, and for thepurposes set forth.

In testimony whereof Iaflix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

D. R. HANAWAL'I.

Witnesses:

R. KENNEDY, WM. A. SHRYOCK.

